Improvement in liquor-coolers



UNITED STATES EDMUND WRIGHT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVMENT lN LIQUOR-COOLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,712, dated August 1, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, EDMUND WRIGHT, of P11iladelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Liquor- Cooler,l of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the combination, with an ice-vessel, of one or more perforated bottleholders extending down into or contained within the said vessel, all as fully described hereafter 5 the main object of my invention being to enable bottles of liquor to be taken out of and returned to the cooler without involving the necessity of removing or of disturbing the ice, as in ordinary coolers.

Figure lis a perspective view of my improved liquor-cooler; Fig. 2, a sectional view of same let into a counter or bar.

A represents an ice-vessel, made, in the present instance7 of sheet metal, and of such a form that it can be let into an opening in a counter or bar, B, so as to be Hush with the top of the latter. Extending through the center of this vesselto a point beneath the bottom ofthe same is a cylindrical bottle-holder, C, perforated with a number of holes, a, within the vessel, but plain beneath the latter, and having at the bottom a drip-hole, b

In usingthe ooolerthe vesselAis lled or nearly filled with broken ice, and a bottle containing the champagne or other wine or liquor to be cooled is placed in the holder C, as shown in Fig. 2. The bottle should tit snugly within the holder so as to be brought as close as possible to the ice surrounding the latter, and so that as the ice melts the water from the same passing through the perforations a of the holder may trickle down the sides ofthe bottle to the outlet b, from which it finally escapes.

It will be evident that with an ice-vessel and holder thus arranged the contents of the bottle can be as quickly and thoroughly cooled as though the bottle were brought in direct contact with the ice, as in the ordinary cooling-vessels or buckets.

My invention, however, possesses the great advantage over the latter that the bottle can be removed from the cooler and put baclr again into its place as many times as may be desired without involving the necessity of removing a portion of the mass of ice or of raking it to one side in order to permit the admission of the bottle into the vessel.

The form of the outer or ice-vessel may be variously modied. It may, for instance, in some cases, be simply a cage of wire-gauze, and in other instances two or more holders may be arranged within a single ice-vessel.

I claim- The perforated casing C, adapted for the reception of a bottle, in combination with a dish, A, forming an ice-receptaole which surrounds and incloses the casing, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDMUND WRIGHT. Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, FRANK. B. RICHARDS. 

